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Monday, June 1, 2015

June - Final Trip Memories

Slicing with the Two Writing Teachers community is a pleasure every week. Happy June to Stacey, Tara, Dana, Betsy, Beth, Anna and slicers!It is the final week of school, our parent 'mini Expo' happened Monday morning for a few hours when parents, siblings and little buddies visited to see students' work and to see the trip board, a tradition that each classroom does, and leaves up for the summer visitors. Some of you asked how we did this, so thought I'd post some of the pictures.

If you want to do a bulletin board that will end up a scrapbook, here is the way we do it. There are additional items on the board that may be added, but there are twenty plus 12 x 12 pages that are laminated, and when the board is taken down in the fall, it will be made into a bound book for the class to keep. I hope you enjoy the pictures. Five students were in charge of the board, but everyone in the class created pages for each day. All I did was supply the paper needed.

This is the first board, & if you look down the hall, you
can see the second one.

This will be the cover.

The day we went to the White House. Some sketches,
photos, & one painting.

Collage Title for the board itself. If you enlarge, I'm in front of the white house,
in the bottom part of the C.

the transition between boards

an art piece depicting the high ropes course we did

You can't read this very well, but it was a favorite memory. We sat in the
rain for a couple of hours on the bay. It wasn't too cold & then we built a fire,
& it was just awesome.

The sunset swing was a 3 seat swing that swung out
over the bay. We were cranked up very high, scary, &
then released-wonderful experience!

Depiction of our final night-campfire. As we parted, everyone doused the
fire & shared one favorite memory of the trip. By the time all finished, the
fire was almost out, like our trip!

Wow! Wow! Wow!!! Each and every time I step back and allow the students to create, I am impressed and amazed! That's exactly how I feel about this board...such creativity and communication. It's wonderful!!! Job well done!!

This is fantastic! I love the way student's created each memory. And the bulletin boards are spectacular. We just purchased a big beautiful (now empty) bulletin board for our office hallway. This is a terrific example for us. Thank you for sharing!

Linda, this is just amazing! The idea of the board is brilliant, and the individual pages you shared are so beautiful and heartfelt and creative! Simply gorgeous. What memories you will all have for a lifetime!

What a great showcase piece! The students' artwork and layouts reveal how engaged they were not just in that great trip, but in reflecting on it afterwards! I'm going to share the idea with son's teacher who plans their 8th grade DC trip.they had a bit of rain on their trip too!

I love this wrap-up of your trip and that you kept us involved from the planning stages all the way through to this bulletin board. You've given us a fabulous gift with this post and pictures. The best PD ever comes from our weekly SOL sharing!